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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRG79

1974-04-30 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N149AA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC FALCON

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0C420

Registrant of record

ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N149AA Beech E18S None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BEECH E18S · N149AA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

LAREDO INTL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA406

Total time

5,872 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,179

Age

52

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1085. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1085.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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